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Belfast bowed stiffly last week to Dublin. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Premier of Northern Ireland, revoked the decree which has barred from Northern Ireland that notorious person Eamon de Valera...
This bow to Dublin was necessary because in Dublin popular Mr. de Valera had just been elected and had taken office as "President" (i. e. Premier) of the ''Irish Free State'' (i. e. Southern Ireland). Fearfully Belfast Protestants heard that Dublin Catholics were roistering in wild Irish fashion every night, shouting that the two Irelands must become one Republic...
...Dublin events quick-stepped both day and night. To become President, Mr. de Valera had had to oust President Cosgrave (TIME, Feb. 29). But Enemies de Valera and Cosgrave are both devout Catholics. United by Rome, they knelt together at a solemn votive mass in St. Mary's, Dublin's procathedral, before starting their battle in Dublin's parliament. Sarcastically Battler Cosgrave said, "We will give President de Valera every opportunity to develop his policies. We don't want to hear his explanations of policy?we want to see what he is going...
...Dublin the first act of the de Valera Government was not to bring in a bill abolishing the oath to King George, as President de Valera has promised to do. To draft this bill would take a few days. But hot out to Arbour Hill Prison rushed the Free State's new Minister of Justice, James Geoghegan. At the prison he discovered "conditions" which he blamed upon ex-President Cosgrave...
...decree of the de Valera Government 20 prisoners were set free before noon. Loudly cheered by the mob, they rode away in motor cars bearing banners, WELCOME HOME, PRISONERS! As soon as ex-Prisoner Frank Ryan got home he restarted his Dublin paper The Republic, demanded that the two Irelands be proclaimed one. Up hundreds of Dublin flagstaffs went the banner of the illegal and unconstitutional Irish Republican Army...